How to roast veggies (and use in different dinner recipes!)

Roast veggies once and use all week!

Our goal at Super Healthy Kids is to get our family to love vegetables! Roasting vegetables brings out the flavor, making them tastier and delicious, so your kids will find them irresistible! For kids to develop healthy habits, it’s important for them to learn to love a variety of fruits and vegetables in a variety of ways. Serving fruits or vegetables in different forms, textures, and temperatures will actually help children develop a mature palate, which is more accepting of a wider variety of new foods. Don’t hesitate to offer fruits and veggies fresh, frozen, roasted, dried, canned, juiced, pureed, blended, etc!

Studies confirm time and time again that people who eat more vegetables:

have better immunity

have decreased risk of chronic disease

have healthier vision, skin, gums, and teeth

have more energy to play

have a preference for healthier food

have better brain function

have better sleep

and of course, live longer!

One thing we like to do is roast our vegetables once so that we can use them for a few different healthy dinners all week long. We add roasted veggies to pasta salad, spaghetti squash, omelets, on wraps, mixed with quinoa, as a pizza topping, on baked potatoes, or literally just eat them right out of the oven.

So, when we roast veggies, we roast them all! Then, we can split them up into different meals. The veggies we roast are:

Red peppers

Yellow peppers

Green peppers

Orange peppers

Zucchini

Yellow squash

Red onion

Yellow onion

Sweet potatoes

Broccoli

Our steps for roasting veggies:

Put the veggies in a bowl or plastic resealable bag, and add a little bit of olive oil. Stir the veggies to coat them with oil, or close the bag and shake to allow the oil to spread among the vegetables. Re-open the bag, add herbs, garlic powder, salt, and pepper to taste.

Lay the veggies flat in a single layer (keeping them in a single layer makes them cook faster) on the prepared pan/baking sheet.

Bake for about 25-30 minutes, flipping the veggies once in the middle. Depending on how well-roasted you want your veggies, you can put them on the convection setting for about 10 minutes at the end.

So for this dinner, we are combing our roasted veggies with chicken and rice for a delicious dinner! Having roasted veggies makes it easy for a variety of quick and healthy dinner ideas!

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